Alex Thomson climbs the mast

Check out this video of Alex Thomson climbing the 27m mast of the Open 60 Hugo Boss just before entering the southern ocean in the Velux 5 Oceans yacht race. During the video he reminds himself how stupid he is for not lowering the spinnaker before going up. Little did he know that the canting keel head was soon to fail. Imagine that! 27m up a mast, hundreds of miles from anywhere and the boat capsizes. He's got to be glad that scenario did not eventuate! See the video here on Alex's website.